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The New York Philharmonic's May 2004 rendition of Leonard Bernstein's Candide will be broadcast on PBS's Great Performances series on January 12 at 8 p.m. EST (check local listings).

The semi-staged performance drew star singers both from Broadway and the operatic world. Two Tony Award winners, Kristin Chenoweth (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and Patti LuPone (Evita, Anything Goes), played Cunegonde and the Old Lady. Tenor Paul Groves played the title role; tenor Stanford Olsen was Vanderdendur/Ragotski. Baritone Thomas Allen performed the roles of Dr. Pangloss, the Narrator, and Voltaire. Joseph Flummerfelt led the Westminster Symphonic Choir.

Marin Alsop, music director of the Bournemouth Symphony and a protégé of Bernstein, conducted. Actor-director Lonny Price, who directed the Philharmonic's 2000 production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, directed both the performance and the telecast.

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